Rail-joint.



J. P. BEATTY:

RAIL JOINT.

APPLIGATION FILED T31R15, 1909,

13 i hwooeo bars, which can be easily and quickly placed ends of the rails or bars together.

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gether, the recesses will form an opening to @iii Fit) a RAIL-JOINT.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that 1, JOHN F. Banana, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morton, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to improvements in rail joints, and more particularly to joints for railroad rails, beams, girders, and other like metal structural bars, the object of the invention being to provide improved means for locking the meeting ends of the rails or bars against possibility of independent movement.

A further object is to provide improve ments of this character, which will add but slight cost in the'manut'acture of rails and in position, and will most eiiectually tie the With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations, and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the ln-the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a view in side elevation illustrating the application of my improvements to a railroad rail. Fig.2,is a view in longitudinal section. Fig. 3, is a view in cross section, and Fig. at, is a detail perspective view of the locking block.

1, 1, represent ails having inclined abut ting ends, but may of course be straight as in ordinary use. The web portions of the rails 1 at their adjacent ends are provided with recesses or openings 2, said recesses or openings being of the particular shape shown in Fig. 2, so that when said rail ends are toaccommodatemy improved locking block 3 as shown in Fig. 4, which latter is made with a flat top 4 to rest directly beneath the bead or head of the rail, and close the space between said bead or head and the web portion of the rail, and effectually support the rail and compensate for the openings or recesses cut therein. The block is provided with down *ardly projecting locking members which project into the. similarly shaped rccesses 2, so that when the block is in position Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 15, 1809.

in the recesses, and is held against lateral dlsplacement by means of the ordinary iisli Eatentcd tict. 5, 19ml. Serial no. 477,853.

plates (5 and bolts '7, the rails are ctl'ectually tied against possibility of independent movement. in other words, the block 3 is oi an approximate inverted U-shapc and hts snugly in the recesses in the ends of llIQitllHlladapted for use with other forms of rails,

beams, girders and the like, and various slight clninges might also be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to .the precise details set forth. but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with two rails or bars located end to end, and having openings or recesses in their abutting ends, which when together form an opening of approximately inverted U-shape, a locking block conforna ing in shape to said openings and located therein, and fish plates secured to the opposite sides of said rails or bars, and holding the said block against lateral movement.

2. In a device of the character described. the combination with rails having inclined ends located end to end, and having recesses in their web portions, which when together form an opening of approxiimitely inverted Ushape, a locking block conforming in shape to said opening and located therein, and fish plates secured to the opposite sides of said web portions of the rails.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the n'cscncc oi two subscribingwitnesses,

JOHN l. BEATTY.

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